Pre-exercise health screening in the UAE: A necessity or barrier to engage in physical activity?

• Rifah Anwar Assadi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dr.jayakumary@gmu.ac.ae (JM); drrifahassadi@gmail.com (RAA)

  Affiliation Gulf Medical UniversityMaster of Public Health (MPH) Program, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4416-6937

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• Afreen Abdul Rahim Sanaullah,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Data curation

  Affiliation Gulf Medical UniversityDoctor of Medicine (MD) Program, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates,

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• Sathyapriya Nandagopal,

  Roles Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Investigation, Methodology, Data curation

  Affiliation Gulf Medical UniversityDoctor of Medicine (MD) Program, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates,

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• Shahnaz Mohamed Wazil,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Data curation

  Affiliation Gulf Medical UniversityDoctor of Medicine (MD) Program, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates,

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• Priya Pardasani,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Data curation

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• Meenadarsini Dhamothiran,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Data curation

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• And Ozyigit,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Data curation

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• Jagat Gopinath,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Data curation

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• Ans Ahmed Mahmood,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Data curation

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• Maryam Almarzooqi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Gulf Medical UniversityMaster of Public Health (MPH) Program, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

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• Bibi Morsal Sayedy,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Gulf Medical UniversityMaster of Public Health (MPH) Program, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

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• Elham Riyaz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Gulf Medical UniversityMaster of Public Health (MPH) Program, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

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• Jayakumary Muttappallymyalil

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing, Investigation, Data curation, Formal analysis

  * E-mail: dr.jayakumary@gmu.ac.ae (JM); drrifahassadi@gmail.com (RAA)

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